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The video game company has a history of making consoles about more than just a controller.<p>Earlier this week, Nintendo introduced a new product called Labo. It’s part video game, part craft project, and most importantly, part one of Nintendo’s step into the booming industry of engineering toys. At …

Meanwhile, films like <i>mother!</i> and <i>It Comes at Night</i> crawled under the skin and fostered challenging, sometimes contentious discussions about how we define the genre. Horror has always been an under-sung backbone of the industry, but it's rarely become such an overtly influential part of the …

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at a taped television event hosted by MSNBC and The Verge’s sister site <i>Recode</i>, said artificial intelligence is one of the most profound things that humanity is working on right now and compared it to basic utilities in terms of its importance.<p>Speaking to <i>Recode</i>’s …

Black holes are some of the most perplexing objects in the entire Universe. Objects so dense, where gravitation is so strong, that nothing, not even light, can ever escape from it. Many physical black holes have been identified, from stellar-mass scale ones in our own galaxy to supermassive ones at …

<b>The US astronaut Jeanette Epps has been removed from her upcoming mission to the International Space Station (ISS) just months before launch.</b><p>Dr Epps was to have been the first African-American astronaut assigned to the space station crew.<p>She would have flown aboard a Russian Soyuz flight in June …

That quote has been used ad nauseam to drive home the fact that cinema is engrained in permanent ink, and that however difficult or arduous the process of making a particular film, the end result is (hopefully) worth it.<p>The truth is not <i>every</i> movie is worth standing the test of time, and some age …

With all the focus these last two weeks on the fate of Glenn on <i>The Walking Dead</i>, a more interesting and certainly more unique character development is potentially taking place right underneath our noses. It concerns Morgan Jones, and by placing his flashback episode in between a cliffhanger and its …

The movie's cast members supported #ForceforDaniel in recent weeks<p>A terminally ill <i>Star Wars</i> fan had his wish realized this week when he was shown an unedited version of <i>Star Wars</i>: <i>The Force Awakens</i> over a month before its official release. Daniel Fleetwood is the man at the heart of #ForceforDaniel<i>,</i> …

<i>Call of Duty: Black Ops 3</i> has the same challenge as <i>Advanced Warfare</i> and <i>Ghosts</i> before it: How do you take the biggest thing going for one console generation and meaningfully evolve it for the next?<p>Developer Treyarch took the Call of Duty franchise in weird new directions with Cold War conspiracy in</i> …

<i>By Tiffany McHugh</i><p>A good first date first impression is almost as essential as a strong first-date-cocktail. Maybe you're tired of being the bad boy, and you really want to wow this girl with some newfound, genuine charm. Or, maybe you're sick of being given the girl-next-door treatment, and you're …

The Toronto International Film Festival has always been one of the main platforms where Oscar-worthy films are born, and this year is no exception.<p>There's the gritty Netflix movie "Beasts of No Nation" that will certainly be in the conversation. And then there's the heart-wrenching "Room" that at …

"Go stand behind that rock. When you can, pop out and hit him with your heavy weapon."<p>These were easy instructions to follow, and the other person on my <i>Destiny</i> fireteam knew what he was talking about. He had run this strike multiple times, and was nice enough to teach me the ropes.<p>I was taking part …

The attention to detail for each is stunning.<p>Artist Dean Robert Smith releases a new series of posters using his tried-and-true graphic design techniques, this time encapsulating the spaceships of <i>Star Wars</i>. Each poster showcases frontal and aerial views of four iconic spacecrafts: X-Wing …

"I want people to get infuriated by it," Martin Scorsese said of his initial impulse in making "Goodfellas." "I wanted to seduce everyone into the movie and into the style. And then just take them apart with it."<p>In fact, some people were appalled and repulsed at the early screenings of …

The Dawn of Justice director poured scorn on the Disney-owned comic-book studio’s output, but he could learn a thing or two from the team behind Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers<p>You might have expected Zack Snyder to take umbrage when asked to respond to Steven Spielberg’s recent comments …

At first I thought it was too early to look ahead at the new attractions coming to U.S. theme parks in 2016, but then I realized a number of big rides have already been announced and many more are already in the planning stages.<p><b>IN THE LOOP: Sign up for our weekly theme parks newsletter</b><p>It already …

The company that made Marty McFly’s hoverboard a reality is reaching for the stars, or more precisely, satellites.<p>Los Gatos, Calif.-based Arx Pax has entered into a Space Act Agreement with NASA, the company announced Wednesday. The partnership involves Arx Pax’s Magnetic Field Architecture (MFA) …